My Precioussss!

We bought lights.

We bought really really pretty lights.

Really pretty super exiting totally beautiful sparkly shiny awesome lights.

I really love these lights.

Since lighting is really like the jewelry of a house- it's also, much like jewelry, the last thing to put on. However, since we finished the painting and the flooring in the hallway, I convinced Tim that we should absolutely, positively, put in the hallway light. If nothing else, just to have a taste of what the house will feel like when totally completed. I like to stare at it.

The hallway fixture is a glass bowl filled with crystal drops that look like rain. It makes rainbows on the walls. I am in love. It will also match the two pendants to *someday* be installed over the peninsula in the kitchen..which will *someday* exist. I wish that the photo did it justice!

We also installed a can light at the end of the hallway which will *someday* light some artwork. I should note that we got all of the main lighting fixtures at Lamps Plus (hall light, two pendants, two sconces for the master vanity, dining room fabulousness, and entry light that is so awesome it makes me giggle when I think of how cool it is). I found the lighting store totally overwhelming - there were some seriously fabulous fixtures in there. Also seriously expensive. This place honestly had a crystal ball fixture priced at $53,000.00. And no, that is the correct number of zeros. But, I managed to keep myself on a leash and we got everything for only about $1100. Not too bad for seven fixtures- it didn't hurt that they were having a summer sale.

I should also mention that Tim thankfully convinced me to spend a little extra on the light switches. They are his fancies. He loves them. He is very excited to turn the lights on and off in the hallway. And, I admit, they are SUPER COOL. We got Lutron Maestro switches- they are a digital push button dimmer and do all sorts of tricks- such as remembering what level of light you want, fading on and off, and even delay in turning off (giving you just enough time to walk from the hall to the bedroom without having the toe stubbing- shin hitting issue of walking in the dark). They are very fancy.

I can't wait to see the other fixtures installed!! And I can't wait to share pictures of them!!